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Is Waste Incineration an Option For Lebanon?

Simulation of pollution transport originating from a hypothetical incinerator (with a 50 m high stack) located in Hurj Beirut (حرج بيروت).

Study carried out by CARS (The AUB Collaborative for the Study of Inhaled Atmospheric Aerosols) and The Microflows and Microscale Heat Transfer Laboratory at AUB

Simulation of pollution transport originating from a hypothetical incinerator (with a 50 m high stack) located in Daoura (الدورة بيروت).

Study carried out by CARS (The AUB Collaborative for the Study of Inhaled Atmospheric Aerosols) and The Microflows and Microscale Heat Transfer Laboratory at AUB

• Fuel consumption for diesel generators increased by 133.5% between 2010 and 2012.

• Diesel generators emitted around 2 Gg of fine particulate matter.

• The number of light duty vehicles doubled and reached an average age of 19 years in 2015.

• The fraction of diesel light duty vehicles increased from 7% to 12% over a decade.

• PAH levels at 3 coastal urban sites demonstrated statistically significant intratemporal and inter-spatial differences.

• All three sites did not follow similar seasonal trend variations.

• BaP concentrations of 2.07  and 2.9 ng m⁻³ in Zouk Mikael and Dora, respectively, exceeded the EU air quality standard.

• We investigate key parameters that contribute to the Urban Heat Island in Beirut.

• The parameters are the anthropogenic heat, roof and wall albedos, and roof thermal conductivity.

• The parameters are tuned to match the forecasted temperature and wind speeds to the measured ones.

• The forecasted temperature and wind speeds are obtained using the single-layer UCM with WRF.

• We found that the anthropogenic heat is the major parameter contributing to the UHI.